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Publication Date
c2004
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1 online resource (xxv, 299 p. :) music.
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A lavish presentation of 208 folksongs collected throughout Alabama in the 1940s. Alabama is a state rich in folksong tradition, from old English ballads sung along the Tennessee River to children's game songs played in Mobile, from the rhythmic work songs of the railroad gandy dancers of Gadsden to the spirituals of the Black Belt. The musical heritage of blacks and whites, rich and poor, hill folk and cotton farmers, these songs endure as a living...
4) Sung tales from the Papua New Guinea highlands: studies in form, meaning, and sociocultural context
Publication Date
2011
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1 online resource (xvi, 330 pages) : illustrations (some color), color map, music
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The genres of sung tales that are the subject of this volume are one of the most striking aspects of the cultural scene in the Papua New Guinea Highlands. Composed and performed by specialist bards, they are a highly valued art form. From a comparative viewpoint they are remarkable both for their scale and complexity, and for the range of variation that is found among regional genres and individual styles. Though their existence has previously been...
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Publication Date
2010
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1 online resource : text files, pdf files, and audio files
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"This book is a musical ethnography of the Duna people of Papua New Guinea. A people who have experienced extraordinary social change in recent history, their musical traditions have also radically changed during this time. New forms of music have been introduced, while ancestral traditions have been altered or even abandoned. This study shows how, through musical creativity, Duna people maintain a connection with their past, and their identity, whilst...
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Garland reference library of the humanities volume 1169, 1191, 1193
Publication Date
1998-
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10 v. : ill., maps ; 29 cm.
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2013.
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1 online resource.
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In this work, author Andrew Clay McGraw shows how Balinese contemporary music, music kontemporer, embodies the tensions between culture as represented and lived. Through a highly interdisciplinary approach, this book presents an all-encompassing social and musical history of musik kontemporer.
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The Indigenous music of Australia volume 2
Publication Date
[2013]
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Wangga, originating in the Daly region of Australia's Top End, is one of the most prominent Indigenous genres of public dance-songs. This book focuses on the songmen who created and performed the songs for their own communities and for the general public over the past 50 years. The book is organised around six repertories: four from the Belyuen-based songmen Barrtjap, Muluk, Mandji and Lambudju, and two from the Wadeye-based Walakandha and Ma-yawa...
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Publication Date
[2015]
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1 online resource (xlix, 187 pages) : illustrations (some color), color maps, music
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For 31 months between 1979 and 1995, James F. Weiner conducted anthropological research amongst the Foi people in Southern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea. This book contains the transcriptions, translations, and descriptions of the songs he recorded. The texts of women's sago songs (obedobora), men's ceremonial songs (sorohabora), and women's sorohabora are included. Men turn the prosaic content of womenís sago songs into their own sorohabora...
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Publication Date
©2008
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1 online resource (xxv, 290 pages) : illustrations
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Intonations tells the story of how Angola's urban residents in the late colonial period (roughly 1945-74) used music to talk back to their colonial oppressors and, more importantly, to define what it meant to be Angolan and what they hoped to gain from independence. A compilation of Angolan music is included in CD format. Marissa J. Moorman presents a social and cultural history of the relationship between Angolan culture and politics. She argues...
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[2022]
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xvi, 198 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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"China's Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) produced propaganda music that still stirs unease and, at times, evokes nostalgia. Lei X. Ouyang uses selections from revolutionary songbooks to untangle the complex interactions between memory, trauma, and generational imprinting among those who survived the period of extremes. Interviews combine with ethnographic fieldwork and surveys to explore both the Cultural Revolution's effect on those who lived through...
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2024.
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"When hip-hop first emerged in the 1970s, it wasn’t expected to become the cultural force it is today. But for a young Black kid growing up in a musical family in Philadelphia, it was everything. He stayed up late to hear the newest songs on the radio. He saved his money to buy vinyl as soon as it landed. He even started to try to make his own songs. That kid was Questlove, and decades later, he is a six-time Grammy Award–winning musician, an...
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Publication Date
2021
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1 online resource (vi, 231 pages)
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Ludwig Senfl - key figure in the generation of composers between Heinrich Isaac and Orlando di Lasso - began his career in 1498 at the court of Emperor Maximilian I, before he worked at the court of Duke Wilhelm IV in Munich from 1523. Much appreciated by his contemporaries, his central position in early music historiography was anchored by J. N. Forkel and A. W. Ambros. Despite the outstanding quality of Senfl's work, a large part of his oeuvre has...
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Publication Date
[2018]
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1 online resource.
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Historians have long treated the patriotic anthems of the American Civil War as colorful, if largely insignificant, side notes. Beneath the surface of these songs, however, is a complex story. "Maryland, My Maryland" was one of the most popular Confederate songs during the American Civil War, yet its story is full of ironies that draw attention to the often painful and contradictory actions and beliefs that were both cause and effect of the war. Most...
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2020.
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1 online resource : illustrations.
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What can music say about group specifics, especially the specifics of ethnic minorities? In this volume, the focus is on one distinctive aspect of minority culture - collective memory. This is not an imprint of the past: it arises as an image, created from the motives of the past, but shaped by the needs and interests of the present, and various actors participate in its creation. If the medium of remembrance is music - a powerful medium which, thanks...
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Toronto Iberic volume 29
Publication Date
[2018]
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1 online resource (xiv, 183 pages) : illustrations.
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Silvia Bermúdez's fascinating study reveals how Spanish popular music, produced between 1980 and 2013, was the first cultural site to engage in critical debate about ethnicity and race in relation to the immigration patterns that have been changing the social landscape of Spanish society since the late 1970s.






